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Study trip to Paris

Hot on the trail of exemplar housing old and new, the studio
headed to Paris in 2016 for a study trip that sought to find out just how our
friends across the channel do things.

Paris and London have grown up together. There are no two
international cities in the world with so much shared history. However the
distinct ways in which each city has built and responded to social and economic
challenges is in sharp contrast.

Over three days we explored the buzzing periphery of the
city around the Canal Saint Martin, took in the latest projects of the ZAC Rive
Gauche and Clichy Batignolle with friends Avenier Cornejo Architects, stood in
awe at the monumental POMO housing of Noisy Le Grand, got re-familiar with Le
Corbusian classics and discovered a new hero in the form of French modernist Fernand
Pouillon.